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4TB hard disks
It is early days yet but 4TB disks are starting to trickle on to the market. I am aware so far of two different makes being launched they being Seagate and Hitachi. Hitachi at least have now made a ki...
If you are running single redundancy XRAID, then installing 2 larger drives will work. If you are running 2 TB drives today, you'd see a volume increase of 2 TB.
enkrypt3d wrote: What would happen if I only added 2 4TB drives with 2 x 2TB drives in my NVX pioneer? would that work? or do I need to replace them all?
It is important that you upgrade your firmware to 4.2.23 first. Also, there are some expansion limits - your NAS will not expand more than 8 TiB from the initial volume size (at install or last factory reset), and it will not expand beyond 16 TiB total. As always, you should have a current backup of your NAS data before you begin.
Since there are no 4 TB drives on the HCL for the NVX, Netgear support won't help you if you run into issues.
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